• Season 5: Episode 48: Jacinta di Mase, literary agent

  • Aug 5 2024
  • Length: 57 mins
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Season 5: Episode 48: Jacinta di Mase, literary agent

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  • Irma chats to agent Jacinta di Mase about what agents do to earn their 15%, the intricacies of contracts – including rights reversion, world rights, backlists and rising royalties, how an agent can fight for an author over cover design and choosing a title, the dos and don’ts of submitting to agents, the extent of editorial feedback to expect from agents, how the submission process to publishers works, the ins and outs of foreign rights, what a co-agent is and why they’re important, how film/TV deals are negotiated, how Covid transformed the industry for the better, and why a meeting at Allen & Unwin with Clementine Ford turned out to be one of the highlights of Jacinta’s career.

    About Jacinta
    Jacinta di Mase has a background in bookselling and publishing, and worked for ten years in two of Australia’s premier literary agencies, before setting up her own agency, Jacinta di Mase Management, in 2004. The agency represents a diverse range of writers and illustrators across all areas of the publishing market, including fiction, non-fiction, and books for children and young adults.
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